{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Tollerton | official_name = | other_name = | settlement_type = Former village | image_skyline = | image_caption = | image_map = | map_caption = | pushpin_relief = yes | pushpin_map = CAN AB Yellowhead#Alberta | pushpin_label_position = <!-- the position of the pushpin label: left, right, top, bottom, none --> | pushpin_map_caption = Location of Tollerton | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = Canada | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Alberta | subdivision_type2 = Region | subdivision_name2 = | subdivision_type3 = Planning region | subdivision_name3 = Upper Athabasca | subdivision_type4 = Municipal district | subdivision_name4 = Yellowhead County | government_footnotes = | government_type = | established_title = Founded | established_date = | established_title1 = Incorporated&nbsp;(village) | established_date1 = December 27, 1913 | established_title2 = Dissolved | established_date2 = January 26, 1918 | timezone = MST | utc_offset = −7 | timezone_DST = MDT | utc_offset_DST = −6 | coordinates = {{coord|53|32|09|N|116|28|10|W|region:CA-AB|display=inline,title}} | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | postal_code_type = Forward sortation area | postal_code = | area_code = 780 / 587 | blank_name = | blank_info = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Tollerton''' is a former village in central Alberta, Canada within Yellowhead County. It was located on the former Canadian Northern Railway along the north shore of the McLeod River,<ref name=townsite>{{cite web | url=http://railways.library.ualberta.ca/Maps-8-1-3/ | publisher=University of Alberta Press | title=Atlas of Alberta Railways – Canadian Northern Tollerton Townsite | year=2005 | accessdate=2011-07-06}}</ref> approximately {{convert|6.0|km|mi|abbr=on}} southwest of the Town of Edson.

== History == Tollerton was established as a division point along the Canadian Northern Railway. Its rail facilities included a train station, a timber water tank, an ice house, a bunk house, a steam-heated engine house, and three rail sidings with capacity to hold 249 cars.<ref name=divpoints>{{cite web | url=http://railways.library.ualberta.ca/Charts-10-1-1/ | publisher=University of Alberta Press | title=Atlas of Alberta Railways – Summary of Facilities at Division Points, Canadian National Railways | year=2005 | accessdate=2011-07-06}}</ref>

The community incorporated as the Village of Tollerton on December 27, 1913.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 27, 1913 |title=Erection of Village |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1FXN6BWC |work=Alberta Gazette |location=Edmonton |page=35 |publication-date=January 15, 1914 |via=University of Calgary |volume=10 |issue=1, Part 1}}</ref> In 1917, a decision was made to close the Canadian Northern Railway line in favour of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway through Edson to the north, resulting in the demise of Tollerton.<ref name=divpoints/> Subsequently, the community dissolved from village status on January 26, 1918.

== Demographics == {{stack|{{Historical populations | title = Population history<br>of Tollerton | type = Canada | align = right | width = | shading = | percentages = | state = | footnote = | source = ''Statistics Canada''<ref name=1916census/> |1916|49 }}}}

In the 1916 Census of Prairie Provinces, Tollerton had a population of 49,<ref name=1916census>{{cite web | url=https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/statcan/CS98-1916-eng.pdf | title=Census of the Prairie Provinces, 1916 | publisher=Dominion Bureau of Statistics | volume=Population and Agriculture | location=Ottawa | year=1918 | accessdate=August 9, 2022}}</ref> although Alberta Municipal Affairs indicated that it had a population of 180 in the same year.<ref name=1916OPL>{{cite web | url=http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/documents/ms/population1916.pdf | publisher=Alberta Municipal Affairs | title=Population Data 1916 | year=1916 | accessdate=July 6, 2011}}</ref>

== See also == *List of communities in Alberta *List of former urban municipalities in Alberta *List of ghost towns in Alberta

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == *[http://railways.library.ualberta.ca/Maps-8-1-3/ Canadian Northern Tollerton Townsite] – Atlas of Alberta Railways *[http://ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesPhotosResults.aspx?XC=/search/archivesPhotosResults.aspx&TN=IMAGEBAN&AC=QBE_QUERY&RF=WebResults&DL=0&RL=0&NP=255&MF=WPEngMsg.ini&MR=10&QB0=AND&QF0=File+number&QI0=NA-489-17&CISOPTR=DF=WebResultsDetails Sale of lots for Tollerton townsite, Tollerton, Alberta] – Glenbow Museum *[http://ww2.glenbow.org/search/archivesPhotosResults.aspx?XC=/search/archivesPhotosResults.aspx&TN=IMAGEBAN&AC=QBE_QUERY&RF=WebResults&DL=0&RL=0&NP=255&MF=WPEngMsg.ini&MR=10&QB0=AND&QF0=File+number&QI0=NA-515-19&CISOPTR=DF=WebResultsDetails View of Tollerton, Alberta] – Glenbow Museum

Category:Yellowhead County Category:Former villages in Alberta Category:Ghost towns in Alberta

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